Terry really is the only true successor to the cowl. He didn't follow in Bruce's footsteps. He made the mask and mantle his own and became something else.
I would say Dick in the comics. Yes he works amazing as Nightwing and became a leader in the DC superhero community. But he made Batman his own and was a fantastic caped crusader both times
Pretty much, he rebirthed the Batman. He didn’t leave, he didn’t go do his own thing, he didn’t form his own party. He took the gig, stayed the course, and made Batman so much more.
One aspect of Batman picking up the gun I don't see people mention much is that part of why Batman died in that moment is that the goon wasn't afraid of Batman. He was afraid of the gun. It wasn't just that it was a moment of weakness for Bruce's personal code and his trauma, it was also that he realised he could no longer strike fear into superstitious and cowardly criminals, even after 30 plus years of building up his reputation and mystique
To add to that the thug talks about how Batman always made it hard for guys like him showing he just knows Batman is a thing. There’s no mystery or mystic. The routine got old and once Bruce did physically, all that was gone.
@@digitaltailsmon4096 Being seen in public with the Justice League might not have helped xD Imagine being a Gothamite and thinking the Batman is basically a cryptid, you've never seen him yourself but have heard the stories, maybe caught glimpses... and then you turn on the news and see him as some guy in a suit standing in broad daylight next to Superman as he shakes hands with the president
Also, in the goon's defence since he ran away like a scared little pissbaby after talking so big... if *I* had grown up with Batman as an already established, scary thing that's been around for decades and likely has his hatred of guns well established and documented/known, and then had an angry, desperate Batman point a gun in my face, I would ABSOLUTELY shit myself too. Probably so hard the force would propel me through the ceiling to make my escape xD
"I chose this life. I use the night, I became the night, sooner or later I'll go down. It might be the Joker, or Two-Face, or just some punk who gets lucky. My decision." The fact that the way BTAS/DCAU Batman finally retires pays off this quote is pure poetry.
Trolls "but he didn't kill the joker so he's a weak, yeah Red Hood Right, Robin "child soilder" Wrong." People don't understand what Batman is about ... it's sad.
And considering most criminals could barely tell if Batman was a man or a monster, it really seals the deal to them that they have no idea what they're dealing with when The Bat shows up.
On the positive side, it IS now a canon part of the comics. It took Beyond longer to get in than Harley (and even Lockdown, apparently), but I think even if seven more reboots hit the comics, Beyond will always be around and setting itself several years ahead of whatever the current regular Batman comics are.
Probably is. When you live your whole life making your own custom and high-performance gadgets, why settle for just a wooden cane? Those Jokers are just lucky that it's only a cane and not like Penguin's umbrellas.
This is why Batman is a mantle and a mask. So one bat man may have to hang up the cowl. But another one comes along so they can be him. Batman lives, he dies, and lives again.
Just don't tell that to Mr. Wayne. In the episode where someone was trying to make him think his subconscious was talking to him, he immediately knew it was a trick because the voice kept calling him Bruce and that's not his name.
@MegaManDBZX That's the perfect way to describe Batman. It's a parasite that feeds on the crusaide. Even though Bruce was the source but crusaide never ends, and the eternal bat needs a new host to seek it's revenge.
@harrisontownsend910 parasite is not a good way to say it. A parasite kills its host. I prefer to call it a passing of the torch and reigniting it with a new flame. The spirit is akin to the torch, the flame is new life.
A single man eventually falls no matter how resolute. But a symbol is everlasting. I read a graphic novel once that took this idea to the extreme- even when humanity has degraded to scattered tribes among the ruins, one tribe takes on the symbol and beliefs of the Bat and protects the others.
I solely thought old age was the biggest factor why Bruce quit but it wasn’t until after becoming a teenager that I saw Batman hated guns and to use one made him appalled. A gun created Batman and it would end his career as Batman.
You know what I just realized? Bruce letting Terry catch his fathers murderer is just like Bruce helping Dick catch his parents murderer, maybe thats why Bruce helped Terry.
Spoiler warning: In the Justice League Unlimited Episode Epilogue we find out that that Terry (as well as his brother Matt) is Bruce's son. This happened because Amanda Waller injected Terry's father with Bruce's DNA to create a son that could become the next Batman should Bruce die. While Terry didn't grow up to become the next Batman, in hindsight it's kind of obvious that Terry is Bruce's son since they look so similar. Also, the fact that both of Terry's parents have red hair yet he & Matt have black hair might have been part of the reason why they divorced.
There's an alternate universe version of Batman Beyond where Terry made Matt Robin Beyond but later took it away because he was afraid Matt would be harmed and it was too risky to have a child sidekick.
@@christiandauz3742: Let's say for the sake of argument, yes it's possible for parents who both have red hair to have 2 sons that both have black hair. Based on genetics, if having black hair for both parents is a recessive trait, the 2 of them having 1 son with black hair would be a 1 in 4 or 25% possibility, but having 2 sons with black hair would be a 1 in 16 or 6.25% possibility.
@@jessetorres8738 The redhead parents might have black haired parents Plus mutations can change hair color I doubt he even think the idea of infidelity especially since genetech is a thing
honestly my favourite passing of the torches in the superhero medium, simply due to just how different the successor is and them not being in a line of succession. like spiderman successors are very common but tend to just be straight upgrades, having the same spidey sense, wall climbing and super strength but then also having shit like invisibility or static electricity, or in the case of spiderman being the successor just slapping iron mans tech onto an already powerful hero. i like that terry lacks the combat training bruce had, and a lot of the tech isn't really that far beyond what bruce had in his prime, flight replaced the grapling hooks and glider for example and the batterangs simply got a cosmetic change, honestly the original utility belt had way more crazy stuff on it than the beyond suit. and i like that terry doesn't just replace bruce, i absolutely love the dynamic of the brain helping the brawn but it's way more exciting here because the tech has decades of experience and acts as a moral counter balance both from becoming jaded over the years but also being principled. they disagree far more often than most partners would while still trusting in eachother. and because those disagreements are more organic it just leads to less forced painful conflicts. like terry being accused of murder is a good example, in a lesser series terry would have to go solo because everyone believes he done something that's out of character, but bruce despite still going mute on the topic still immediately searches for the evidence to confirm or deny. there is no blind belief or disbelief, and that's what i love about them.
okay so I do wanna point out, bruce getting brabra pregnant isnt actuly cannon to the DCAU, its in its own spinoff continuity that had no connection to the writers of the OG shows.
One of the things that Batman Beyond handled beautifully was when they would bring back characters from Bruce's past. The episode with Mr Freeze was heartbreaking, Ra's al'Ghul was even more monstrous than he was back in the day, and what happened to Superman was just as depressing as what happened to Bruce and for much the same reasons. Clark ended up with no one in his life, mostly retired from heroism, and just living by himself at the Fortress of Solitude under Starro's control.
I liked the series, but I am unsure if they could replicate it. The company wanted a teenage Bruce Wayne. The producers thought that would be a bad idea and thus made it Terry to get the 'teen Batman' as a work around. The progression from there was using it as a fresh start to make new villains or look back at old ones, but keep the new characters as their own rather than the cheap 'hand me down' method that the Batman Beyond comics sort of suffer from. Where everyone must be related to someone from the main cast (hero or villain) and it is reskin of old characters rather than new ones. Also not helped by when the series was made... And how many Batman family members there are now to the point some people would question why hadn't X picked up the costume since then? Good character, good tv show... Just not sure they can repeat its success if they tried it again.
Indeed. To add onto that, BTAS itself beginning production in the immediate aftermath of Crisis on Infinite Earths meant that even by the time Beyond was in production, the multiverse was put on hold by DC at the time, and stories like Kingdom Come being a possible future was the elseworld story of choice at the time. Nowadays, DC would not commit to a definitive far future for their characters like this, to the point where they can’t properly introduce Terry McGinnis to the comics without tripping over themselves. So yeah, the whole DCAU saga was only possible due to a lot of “perfect storm” scenarios that likely won’t happen again.
17:59 I remember Boomerang. It does still exist, but the bad news is they took out everything that made it interesting and stuck with very few shows. Since 2015, Boomerang as we knew it was gone.
Boomerang was what I watched when I was 3-4 years old. We never had cable, but my grandma did, so whenever we went to her house in Jacksonville, I'd watch almost exclusively Boomerang. (This was like, 2008-2009) I do remember watching Nicktoons (The channel where old Nickelodeon shows go to die.) a few times, as well as Cartoon Network, before just watching Cartoon Network all throughout 2012-about 2018-ish, mostly because at that point I was 1) Phasing out of Cartoons as I was becoming a teen. 2) I got a Nintendo Switch around that time. And 3) They filled the schedule up with TTG, We Bare Bears, and We Baby Bears, etc. Also we got more streaming services around this time, so I was watching mostly Netflix Originals and such. As a result, I have no experience or nostalgia for most of the cartoons most others grew up with. (I was also born in 2005, so that might've also played a role.)
There was a Batman Beyond film pitched to WB that, while not live action, was in the same art style as and written by the people who made Into/Across the Spider verse
@@bidoofenshmirtzthere excuse was they didn’t know if anyone would watch it ummmm the joker called he wants his joke back they didn’t have to do anything special in the film just a Batman beyond extended episode find a way to not have Bruce in it or make sure he doesn’t speak until the end then have terry work by himself as Batman he11 league of shadows hasn’t been in the beyond timeline what would be cool would be a terry versus Damian Wayne for the mantle to prove that terry is the batman of the future
We were going to get a live action Batman Beyond movie with Michael Keaton as Old Man Bruce, the only reason we didn’t is because Warner bros put the potential of it being greenlit on the success of The Flash. And we all know how that ended.
Man I love Batman beyond but man it was amazing I watched it on boomerang as well I actually rewatched Batman beyond a few years ago as well my only gripe is they kinda abruptly.
One month later and yeah I remember the standalone boomerang channel now, I remember an older channel logo from before but I think it just was seen as redundant to air a channel for older cartoons that not many were watching.
I've always loved the fact that the reason Bruce retired wasn't because he got too old, it was because he made a choice that went against everything he stood for. It didn't matter that it was for his own safety, to Bruce it was an unforgivable mistake.
I actually like the old man Bruce kicking butt scene because the one who looks like the Joker walk up and said "don't you know who we are we're The Jokerz" Bruce:Sure you are with a smile
It's a sad truth that Batman never really had an impact on Gotham. He just didn't matter and never mattered. I do like thinking about what needs to happen and what could happen in a Batman story where he does stop crime. Mayor Batman? Therapeutic Batman? Inclusive even to villains Batman? That last sounds wack. Ok so there are at least two arguably three Villains Batman can permanently help, depending on their versions of them. Killer crock, baby doll, clay face, and Mr. Freez. This hypothetical story could start with them joining the bat family. (I understand if you think this is stupid) Batman finally working on the community in Gotham instead of just donating to charities in Gotham, Or just opening up Shelters, or making prosthetics cheaper, or any of the good things he does at arm's length. This doesn't even have to be Bruce's idea. It could come from one of his Robbens...or Bat Girl. If you really want this to be the good ending...cat woman.
Regarding the Derek Powers arc episode its crazy how its similar to the game story of the Ooze from Sega Genesis game the antagonist was attempting the do the same thing create a biohazard event for profit. Robotnick-Dr Eggman created the Zombot Virus also created a food based bioweapon called the Fryrus it was pretty gruesome looking. Dr.Blight from Captain Planet represent the same thing she has to hide her scarred face it looked really nasty. Resident Evil same thing unchecked technological advancements towards. Biowarfare is absolutely no joke at all even in the artform and life reflects it.
What I think is overlooked about Batman's final night is just how anticlimactic it was. It wasn't some last showdown with the Joker or saving the world with the Justice League that did him in. It was just a bunch thugs he could've taken down in his sleep, back in the day.
Honestly, I actually like this Batman a lot despite the Bruce and Barbara incident that makes a lot of people don't like it and some hate it because it ruined the lagacy but... I like it because it makes Bruce/Batman just like any other human and flawed in so many ways and failed like any normal human.
I liked the idea of Bruce finally hitting his limit. I used to hate batman Beyond but now I think things need to end and a new generation needs to pick up the slack.
I taped the first episode on vhs because I had to go to a Boy Scout meeting, literally ran into my house to see its debut after. Terry deserves so much more respect, and Bruce is a total asshole this entire series. The reveal of Derek Powers as a green skeleton monster still haunts me to this day
We never see Jason in the DCAU, so for this Batman it’s his second he went straight from dick to Tim, and used some elements of Jason rolled into Tim due to not being able to adapt death in the family because it’s a kids show
Terry Was what optimus primal tried to be A future version of the character intended as a different character entirely Terry was a delinquet He had far more edge to him then bruce also was not as smart Optimus primal just ended up as a carbon copy of the orginal character
More/deeper analysis and less recapping the episodes would make for better content on this series. Anyone can go and watch Batman Beyond on their own but only you can give your take on the themes and the general writing of the show.
Batman Beyond got kinda weird at the end though, Terry's dad being like "hey doc that shot won't but billionare Bruce Wayne's semen in my bass will it? Haha don't be ridiculous Mr. Mcguines, no it won't (yes it will)
After 3 minutes I realized that this is the most "Old man yells at clouds" think I've ever seen. Why is everything bleak? Because theme. Or do you think that Billionaires fighting day in and day out for decades would not amount to anything? Oh, and btw... I think the planet not beying destroyed by Darkside, Ocean Master, Hades, etc. isn't exactly nothing to show for his effort. And neither is the countless massacres he prevented. But if this is how you see it... go to therapy. Hug some kitten. Call a friend
Alright, dude Bruce’s city he spent years trying to save is a dystopian metropolis with a power hunger and uncaring man running his company he’s too beaten down to even be Batman anymore and the bat family has all gone there separate ways. The whole point of the first episode is setting up how bleak it all is and how terry is hope for a better future. I am simply painting a picture of how it was.
For all is brain power batman had to have known the life he chose meant he would’ve been dead by old age. You think he’d work to be immortal or something like Superman or Wonder Woman
This@TB26 this Batsuit can be hacked. In the episode "Lost Cause" a rich guy turned his consciousness into an AI and was woken up in the Batman Beyond future. He decided living on a TV screen was awful so he decided to steal a body. His grandson gave him internet access and he started hacking everything including the Beyond suit. He makes the suit try to drown Terry but Bruce stops it and takes them to the Batcave. The suit wakes up and runs off and plans to steal his grandson to download his brain into him. Anyway Terry wearing Bruce's utility belt and Nightwing's mask defeats him. And Bruce did build a mech suit but it put too much strain on his heart. Plus I don't know how you'd use non lethal karate with a mech suit
Terry really is the only true successor to the cowl. He didn't follow in Bruce's footsteps. He made the mask and mantle his own and became something else.
I would say Dick in the comics. Yes he works amazing as Nightwing and became a leader in the DC superhero community. But he made Batman his own and was a fantastic caped crusader both times
But when Jean Paul Valley did it he was a "psychopath" and "deranged"
Terry's version of batman is a little similar to spiderman
@@ultron_sigmaand spiderman 2099 is a bit like batman
Pretty much, he rebirthed the Batman.
He didn’t leave, he didn’t go do his own thing, he didn’t form his own party. He took the gig, stayed the course, and made Batman so much more.
One aspect of Batman picking up the gun I don't see people mention much is that part of why Batman died in that moment is that the goon wasn't afraid of Batman. He was afraid of the gun. It wasn't just that it was a moment of weakness for Bruce's personal code and his trauma, it was also that he realised he could no longer strike fear into superstitious and cowardly criminals, even after 30 plus years of building up his reputation and mystique
To add to that the thug talks about how Batman always made it hard for guys like him showing he just knows Batman is a thing. There’s no mystery or mystic. The routine got old and once Bruce did physically, all that was gone.
@@digitaltailsmon4096 Being seen in public with the Justice League might not have helped xD Imagine being a Gothamite and thinking the Batman is basically a cryptid, you've never seen him yourself but have heard the stories, maybe caught glimpses... and then you turn on the news and see him as some guy in a suit standing in broad daylight next to Superman as he shakes hands with the president
Also, in the goon's defence since he ran away like a scared little pissbaby after talking so big... if *I* had grown up with Batman as an already established, scary thing that's been around for decades and likely has his hatred of guns well established and documented/known, and then had an angry, desperate Batman point a gun in my face, I would ABSOLUTELY shit myself too. Probably so hard the force would propel me through the ceiling to make my escape xD
Beautiful answer thank you 😢
@@scarletsabre8383 yeah thinking about it like that,
that definitely humanized him haha
Still one of the best dialogue exchanges ever is...
"You're pretty strong... for some clown who thinks he's Batman."
"I *AM* BATMAN."
"I chose this life. I use the night, I became the night, sooner or later I'll go down. It might be the Joker, or Two-Face, or just some punk who gets lucky. My decision."
The fact that the way BTAS/DCAU Batman finally retires pays off this quote is pure poetry.
Trolls "but he didn't kill the joker so he's a weak, yeah Red Hood Right, Robin "child soilder" Wrong."
People don't understand what Batman is about ... it's sad.
@@WannabeWryterhe’s a deep character
Yeah, that line was written after this episode, it was a direct reference to what in release order is the previous series
Imagine how terrifying it would be if you were in the middle of a robbery,Batman shows up,you get ready to fight,and he pulls a Glock on you
And considering most criminals could barely tell if Batman was a man or a monster, it really seals the deal to them that they have no idea what they're dealing with when The Bat shows up.
Batman Beyond is so good and I'm sad it never fully caught on despite the praise.
On the positive side, it IS now a canon part of the comics. It took Beyond longer to get in than Harley (and even Lockdown, apparently), but I think even if seven more reboots hit the comics, Beyond will always be around and setting itself several years ahead of whatever the current regular Batman comics are.
Will always be fun seeing old bruce using his cane.
I think his cane is as industructable as Hulk shorts.
Probably is. When you live your whole life making your own custom and high-performance gadgets, why settle for just a wooden cane? Those Jokers are just lucky that it's only a cane and not like Penguin's umbrellas.
This is why Batman is a mantle and a mask.
So one bat man may have to hang up the cowl. But another one comes along so they can be him.
Batman lives, he dies, and lives again.
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Just don't tell that to Mr. Wayne. In the episode where someone was trying to make him think his subconscious was talking to him, he immediately knew it was a trick because the voice kept calling him Bruce and that's not his name.
@@seantaylor424 the man dies, the movement never will
Batman didn't die
Just went to sleep for 20 years
He just needed a new host.
@MegaManDBZX That's the perfect way to describe Batman. It's a parasite that feeds on the crusaide. Even though Bruce was the source but crusaide never ends, and the eternal bat needs a new host to seek it's revenge.
@harrisontownsend910 parasite is not a good way to say it.
A parasite kills its host.
I prefer to call it a passing of the torch and reigniting it with a new flame.
The spirit is akin to the torch, the flame is new life.
"Welcome to my world"
fucking chills everytime Old Man Bruce says it
A single man eventually falls no matter how resolute. But a symbol is everlasting.
I read a graphic novel once that took this idea to the extreme- even when humanity has degraded to scattered tribes among the ruins, one tribe takes on the symbol and beliefs of the Bat and protects the others.
2:59 actually that's not canon anymore thank god
It was part of beyond 2.0 which isn't tied into the main dcau iirc.
I don’t know what they were thinking
@LordCasterwell Bait used to be believable.
I solely thought old age was the biggest factor why Bruce quit but it wasn’t until after becoming a teenager that I saw Batman hated guns and to use one made him appalled. A gun created Batman and it would end his career as Batman.
Actually, Terry McGinnis wasn't the first Batman to drop a plane out of the sky, Bruce did it in "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" in B:TAS
@Ono-Lin_Tam Yes that's the episode.
You know what I just realized? Bruce letting Terry catch his fathers murderer is just like Bruce helping Dick catch his parents murderer, maybe thats why Bruce helped Terry.
Spoiler warning:
In the Justice League Unlimited Episode Epilogue we find out that that Terry (as well as his brother Matt) is Bruce's son. This happened because Amanda Waller injected Terry's father with Bruce's DNA to create a son that could become the next Batman should Bruce die. While Terry didn't grow up to become the next Batman, in hindsight it's kind of obvious that Terry is Bruce's son since they look so similar. Also, the fact that both of Terry's parents have red hair yet he & Matt have black hair might have been part of the reason why they divorced.
That's a good point at the end of your comment.
There's an alternate universe version of Batman Beyond where Terry made Matt Robin Beyond but later took it away because he was afraid Matt would be harmed and it was too risky to have a child sidekick.
Parents with black hair can have redheads as kids and vice versa
@@christiandauz3742: Let's say for the sake of argument, yes it's possible for parents who both have red hair to have 2 sons that both have black hair. Based on genetics, if having black hair for both parents is a recessive trait, the 2 of them having 1 son with black hair would be a 1 in 4 or 25% possibility, but having 2 sons with black hair would be a 1 in 16 or 6.25% possibility.
@@jessetorres8738
The redhead parents might have black haired parents
Plus mutations can change hair color
I doubt he even think the idea of infidelity especially since genetech is a thing
I AM BATMAN
-Terry Mcginnis
And Batman was Reborn.
honestly my favourite passing of the torches in the superhero medium, simply due to just how different the successor is and them not being in a line of succession.
like spiderman successors are very common but tend to just be straight upgrades, having the same spidey sense, wall climbing and super strength but then also having shit like invisibility or static electricity, or in the case of spiderman being the successor just slapping iron mans tech onto an already powerful hero.
i like that terry lacks the combat training bruce had, and a lot of the tech isn't really that far beyond what bruce had in his prime, flight replaced the grapling hooks and glider for example and the batterangs simply got a cosmetic change, honestly the original utility belt had way more crazy stuff on it than the beyond suit. and i like that terry doesn't just replace bruce, i absolutely love the dynamic of the brain helping the brawn but it's way more exciting here because the tech has decades of experience and acts as a moral counter balance both from becoming jaded over the years but also being principled. they disagree far more often than most partners would while still trusting in eachother. and because those disagreements are more organic it just leads to less forced painful conflicts.
like terry being accused of murder is a good example, in a lesser series terry would have to go solo because everyone believes he done something that's out of character, but bruce despite still going mute on the topic still immediately searches for the evidence to confirm or deny. there is no blind belief or disbelief, and that's what i love about them.
okay so I do wanna point out, bruce getting brabra pregnant isnt actuly cannon to the DCAU, its in its own spinoff continuity that had no connection to the writers of the OG shows.
Good to know. Really.
Thank God. I couldn't imagine Bruce being so weak willed that he'd bed Barbara.
Only when a certain writer writes him.
One of the things that Batman Beyond handled beautifully was when they would bring back characters from Bruce's past. The episode with Mr Freeze was heartbreaking, Ra's al'Ghul was even more monstrous than he was back in the day, and what happened to Superman was just as depressing as what happened to Bruce and for much the same reasons. Clark ended up with no one in his life, mostly retired from heroism, and just living by himself at the Fortress of Solitude under Starro's control.
3:04 NOT CANON, luckily.
3:02 THAT COMIC IS NOT CANNON!!!!
I have never seen this show.
Wow what a really nice opening to the show.
Yeah id recommend it it's aged surprisingly well! I watched it last summer and some of those episodes are really good
I liked the series, but I am unsure if they could replicate it.
The company wanted a teenage Bruce Wayne.
The producers thought that would be a bad idea and thus made it Terry to get the 'teen Batman' as a work around.
The progression from there was using it as a fresh start to make new villains or look back at old ones, but keep the new characters as their own rather than the cheap 'hand me down' method that the Batman Beyond comics sort of suffer from.
Where everyone must be related to someone from the main cast (hero or villain) and it is reskin of old characters rather than new ones.
Also not helped by when the series was made... And how many Batman family members there are now to the point some people would question why hadn't X picked up the costume since then?
Good character, good tv show... Just not sure they can repeat its success if they tried it again.
Indeed. To add onto that, BTAS itself beginning production in the immediate aftermath of Crisis on Infinite Earths meant that even by the time Beyond was in production, the multiverse was put on hold by DC at the time, and stories like Kingdom Come being a possible future was the elseworld story of choice at the time. Nowadays, DC would not commit to a definitive far future for their characters like this, to the point where they can’t properly introduce Terry McGinnis to the comics without tripping over themselves.
So yeah, the whole DCAU saga was only possible due to a lot of “perfect storm” scenarios that likely won’t happen again.
These comics don't count
They have parts of different continuity in them
I figured it would be the day Kevin Conroy passed.
1 video I would really like to see is you talk about Killer Frost from the Justice League cartoons.
17:59 I remember Boomerang. It does still exist, but the bad news is they took out everything that made it interesting and stuck with very few shows. Since 2015, Boomerang as we knew it was gone.
Father Time always wins in the end
Father time will eventually succumb to himself one day
Boomerang was what I watched when I was 3-4 years old. We never had cable, but my grandma did, so whenever we went to her house in Jacksonville, I'd watch almost exclusively Boomerang. (This was like, 2008-2009) I do remember watching Nicktoons (The channel where old Nickelodeon shows go to die.) a few times, as well as Cartoon Network, before just watching Cartoon Network all throughout 2012-about 2018-ish, mostly because at that point I was 1) Phasing out of Cartoons as I was becoming a teen. 2) I got a Nintendo Switch around that time. And 3) They filled the schedule up with TTG, We Bare Bears, and We Baby Bears, etc. Also we got more streaming services around this time, so I was watching mostly Netflix Originals and such. As a result, I have no experience or nostalgia for most of the cartoons most others grew up with. (I was also born in 2005, so that might've also played a role.)
I'm still hoping we'll get a live action Batman Beyond film or series at some point.
Before “The Batman” I had thought Robert Pattinson would be a good Terry McGuinnis since he has that smart Alec snark
There was a Batman Beyond film pitched to WB that, while not live action, was in the same art style as and written by the people who made Into/Across the Spider verse
Nah make it animated it would go crazy
@@bidoofenshmirtzthere excuse was they didn’t know if anyone would watch it ummmm the joker called he wants his joke back they didn’t have to do anything special in the film just a Batman beyond extended episode find a way to not have Bruce in it or make sure he doesn’t speak until the end then have terry work by himself as Batman he11 league of shadows hasn’t been in the beyond timeline what would be cool would be a terry versus Damian Wayne for the mantle to prove that terry is the batman of the future
We were going to get a live action Batman Beyond movie with Michael Keaton as Old Man Bruce, the only reason we didn’t is because Warner bros put the potential of it being greenlit on the success of The Flash.
And we all know how that ended.
it was a miscarriage not abortion
That's what I was thinking!
This is how it happened this is how the Batman died ahhh title
“The day that Batman is no longer Batman.”-Old Darkfire.
Man I love Batman beyond but man it was amazing I watched it on boomerang as well I actually rewatched Batman beyond a few years ago as well my only gripe is they kinda abruptly.
There's a spin off series called The Zeta Project, it's meant more for kids but it still exists if anyone is interested
Warner Bruhs rejected the Spiderverse studio's Batman Beyond pitch, for Minecraft.
Minecraft.
I like these analysis videos. Was looking to re-watch Batman Beyond again.
those comics weren't canon dont bring in that bat on bat stuff into this
2:25 Third Robin. Jason Todd is canon.
I always hear people say people on the streets imitate the “villains” of Gotham yet the only group is the jokers
Ghoul reminds me of the scarecrow, he could be a relative
Batman Beyond also aired on The Hub. The original network that aired My little pony Friendship is Magic.
Batman Beyond is my absolute favorite DCAU series
2:59 WOAH WOAH WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN
It was a miscarriage, and that comic is not canon thankfully.
Never! IT. NEVER. HAPPENED
An intern for Bruce Wayne. (Be batman)
Batman may die, but Bruce Wayne will live.
I remember fedx watching batman, spiderman and sonic each weekend
Boomerang I think became a segment on CN not it's own channel.
As far as I know.
It was it's own channel at one point
It started as a segment on CN, then it got its own channel. I have no idea what it’s like now, probably gone.
One month later and yeah I remember the standalone boomerang channel now, I remember an older channel logo from before but I think it just was seen as redundant to air a channel for older cartoons that not many were watching.
This television show is amazing
A Live Action Batman Beyond film or a A Triple A Batman Beyond game would be really cool
I've always loved the fact that the reason Bruce retired wasn't because he got too old, it was because he made a choice that went against everything he stood for. It didn't matter that it was for his own safety, to Bruce it was an unforgivable mistake.
Unfortunately because of corporate greed. Boomerang is no longer. 😢
I actually like the old man Bruce kicking butt scene because the one who looks like the Joker walk up and said "don't you know who we are we're The Jokerz" Bruce:Sure you are with a smile
Never again.
One of the ways the show acheived its look was the classic Timm method of being drawn on black paper.
Terry earned the mantle.
Now give me a video about the day this particular Batman became immortal, as in the death of Ace from the previous justice league show
It's a sad truth that Batman never really had an impact on Gotham.
He just didn't matter and never mattered.
I do like thinking about what needs to happen and what could happen in a Batman story where he does stop crime.
Mayor Batman?
Therapeutic Batman?
Inclusive even to villains Batman?
That last sounds wack.
Ok so there are at least two arguably three
Villains Batman can permanently help, depending on their versions of them.
Killer crock, baby doll, clay face, and
Mr. Freez.
This hypothetical story could start with them joining the bat family.
(I understand if you think this is stupid)
Batman finally working on the community in Gotham instead of just donating to charities in Gotham, Or just opening up
Shelters, or making prosthetics cheaper, or any of the good things he does at arm's length.
This doesn't even have to be Bruce's idea. It could come from one of his Robbens...or Bat Girl.
If you really want this to be the good ending...cat woman.
love this!!!!
The moment Terry said I am Batman. Was hype
Aging sucks.
Regarding the Derek Powers arc episode its crazy how its similar to the game story of the Ooze from Sega Genesis game the antagonist was attempting the do the same thing create a biohazard event for profit.
Robotnick-Dr Eggman created the Zombot Virus also created a food based bioweapon called the Fryrus it was pretty gruesome looking.
Dr.Blight from Captain Planet represent the same thing she has to hide her scarred face it looked really nasty.
Resident Evil same thing unchecked technological advancements towards.
Biowarfare is absolutely no joke at all even in the artform and life reflects it.
Boomerang!
Watching it on Boomerang? I remember watching it as it came out on Kids WB....But I'm old.
Boomerang is still around.
Missing opportunity to call the video "The Night that Batman die"
You know what I’m using that now
I wonder how many people (like myself) questioned why Bruce never considered a tranq pistol
Bruce hates guns altogether.
What I think is overlooked about Batman's final night is just how anticlimactic it was. It wasn't some last showdown with the Joker or saving the world with the Justice League that did him in. It was just a bunch thugs he could've taken down in his sleep, back in the day.
Some punk that got lucky you could say.
The best way to pass the mantle
Honestly, I actually like this Batman a lot despite the Bruce and Barbara incident that makes a lot of people don't like it and some hate it because it ruined the lagacy but...
I like it because it makes Bruce/Batman just like any other human and flawed in so many ways and failed like any normal human.
I liked the idea of Bruce finally hitting his limit. I used to hate batman Beyond but now I think things need to end and a new generation needs to pick up the slack.
Started with a gun, ended with a gun. That's kinda poetic, and sad.
I taped the first episode on vhs because I had to go to a Boy Scout meeting, literally ran into my house to see its debut after. Terry deserves so much more respect, and Bruce is a total asshole this entire series. The reveal of Derek Powers as a green skeleton monster still haunts me to this day
Boomerang still exists.
Batman is dead. Long live Batman!
Tim Drake was the third robin, not the second. The second Robin was Jason Todd
We never see Jason in the DCAU, so for this Batman it’s his second he went straight from dick to Tim, and used some elements of Jason rolled into Tim due to not being able to adapt death in the family because it’s a kids show
I really wish the Barbara's pregnancy thing wasn't canonical, that's so freaky
80+ actually
Terry
Was what optimus primal tried to be
A future version of the character intended as a different character entirely
Terry was a delinquet
He had far more edge to him then bruce also was not as smart
Optimus primal just ended up as a carbon copy of the orginal character
The best Batman is the Batman who uses the Bat-Glock, Batfleck.
It really is a powerful scene , and it’s literally the beginning of Batman beyond loll
More/deeper analysis and less recapping the episodes would make for better content on this series. Anyone can go and watch Batman Beyond on their own but only you can give your take on the themes and the general writing of the show.
the batman and barbara shit still annoys me every time im reminded of it.
A lot of people who pick up the gun is just like he is now on the ground desperate scared out of options and afraid afraid for their lives....
Bruce can be such a dick
Some times
we're getting old man... talking about boomerang as if it's history
(it lowk is)
Hmm. Think ill subscribe.
Batman Beyond got kinda weird at the end though, Terry's dad being like "hey doc that shot won't but billionare Bruce Wayne's semen in my bass will it? Haha don't be ridiculous Mr. Mcguines, no it won't (yes it will)
If powers used extreme heat instead of radiation he would shoot fire
Terry's dad deserved to be avenged, and it was least Bruce could provide after making that dude shot not his own, but Bruce's sperm.
Barbara did not get pregnant in the dcau, those comics are a different universe.
But besides that great video.
batman dipping dirtys with batgirl is unhinged GROSS
I’m the original Batman
After 3 minutes I realized that this is the most "Old man yells at clouds" think I've ever seen.
Why is everything bleak? Because theme.
Or do you think that Billionaires fighting day in and day out for decades would not amount to anything?
Oh, and btw... I think the planet not beying destroyed by Darkside, Ocean Master, Hades, etc. isn't exactly nothing to show for his effort. And neither is the countless massacres he prevented.
But if this is how you see it... go to therapy. Hug some kitten. Call a friend
Alright, dude Bruce’s city he spent years trying to save is a dystopian metropolis with a power hunger and uncaring man running his company he’s too beaten down to even be Batman anymore and the bat family has all gone there separate ways. The whole point of the first episode is setting up how bleak it all is and how terry is hope for a better future. I am simply painting a picture of how it was.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DOEST PAY THE BEST!!! HES WORKING FOR BRUCE FREAKING WAYNE. HE BETTER NOT BE GETTING MINIMUM WAGE
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For all is brain power batman had to have known the life he chose meant he would’ve been dead by old age. You think he’d work to be immortal or something like Superman or Wonder Woman
Batman and Barbara is not canon in my mind I don’t care what nobody say. I skip that part of the plot 😂
So batman does not make a robot to do the work?
Failsafe bro
The probability of it getting Hijacked and probably ending lives maybe.
This@TB26 this Batsuit can be hacked. In the episode "Lost Cause" a rich guy turned his consciousness into an AI and was woken up in the Batman Beyond future. He decided living on a TV screen was awful so he decided to steal a body. His grandson gave him internet access and he started hacking everything including the Beyond suit. He makes the suit try to drown Terry but Bruce stops it and takes them to the Batcave. The suit wakes up and runs off and plans to steal his grandson to download his brain into him. Anyway Terry wearing Bruce's utility belt and Nightwing's mask defeats him.
And Bruce did build a mech suit but it put too much strain on his heart. Plus I don't know how you'd use non lethal karate with a mech suit
just no..
Yeah he actually did do that and it didn't end well.
How are you going to make me feel so old talking about boomerang